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W. K. GROFFORD.

LEMON SQUEEZER.

No. 377,291. Patented Jan. 31, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN K. CROFFORD, OF NElV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO \VILLIAM BARDSLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

LEMON-SQUEEZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 377,291, dated January 31, 1888.

Application filed April E), 1887. Serial No. 234,219. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.- In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation Be it known that LXVARREN K. GRoFFoRD, of the device, the levers being at rest in a a citizen of the United States, and a resident downward position; and Fig. 2,a cross-section 55 of New York, in the county of New York and taken on line 3 3 Fig. 1.

5 State of New York, have invented certain new Similarletters refer to similar parts throughand useful Improvements in Leinon-Squeezout the specification, in which ers, of which the following is a specification. a is the standard provided with the exten- My invention relates to improvements in sion 1), having fulcrumed thereon the presser- 6o lemonsqueezers, of which a full and clear delever 0, provided with the perforation or elonro scription will be given hereinafter. gated slot d, adapted to receive the hand-lever The devices heretofore used for extracting e. The extreme end of the presser-lever c is the juice from lemons by pressure were defiprovided with the presser adapted to press cient in their parts, so much so as to make lemons upon the perforated bed hof the cup h. 65 them objectionable and inefficient at times to It will be observed that when the hand-leperform the function necessarily required of ver e is pressed downward the lower edge will them. The first objection is that of the reabut against the shoulder f and when raised tracting spring placed beneath the lever carwill move against the abutting surface g. The rying the presser, thelatterof which is pressed slot is of course made to accommodate the 70 downwardly upon the lemon by means of a sweep that may be given by the hand-lever.

cam actuated by the handlever. In this in- I am aware that lemon-squeezers have herestance no connection is made between the lever tofore been made with two cups, one inverted carrying the presser and that of the cam exand havinga convexed bottom fixed toa handle cept the frictional contact between the two, so with a slot through it for a lever,which con- 75 that the upward movement of the lever carrynects with the under concave cup and has forits ing the presser depends upon the spring placed fulcrum the handle of the first cup. My inthereunder. This construction is objectionvention differs from this, as I have both levers able, from the fact that when the lemon is connected with one and the same base, thus pressed down into the contractor it will not giving a greater purohase,whioh is evident to 80 only form a suction, but will wedge itself be any one skilled in the art to which my inven- 0 tween the walls of said contractor and that of tion relates.

the presser, and thus form a lock,whereby the Having thus described my invention, whatI presser-lever is prevented from rising when claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters the cam of the handlever is removed there- Patent, is- 8 5 from. These objections are obviated by my In a lemon-squeezer, the combination of the 3 5 invention, fully described hereinafter. standard a, provided with the extension b,and

My invention consists of a presser-leverhavthe cup h, provided with the perforated bed h, ing one end fulcrumed to an extension of the the presser-lever 0, having the presser c at its standard, the other end carrying a suitable free end and provided with the elongated slot 0 presser. The forward end of this presser-led, fulcrumed to said extension, and the handver is provided with a perforation or elongated lever e, fulcrumed to the standard and passing slot made on the vertical plane with said through the slot in the presser-lever, substanpresser lever. This slot or perforation is tially as described. adapted to receive a handlever, one end of Signed at New York, in the county of New 5 which is fulcrumed to the upper part of the York and State of New York, this 6th day of standard near the contractor, thus subjecting April, A. D. 1887.

the movement of the presser-lever to that of the hand-lever, whether it be an upward or XVARREN K. CROFFORD. downward movement.

I do not wish to confine myself to any exact "Witnesses:

5o shape of levers, as I may use various shapes JOHN A. OBRIEN,

without departing from the spirit of my in- Join: H AIINENFELD. vention. 

